Tired of Twitter spam? So is Twitter. So tired, in fact, that they've released their legal hounds against several of the worst spam-tastic perps.
If you were pestered by telemarketers any time between January 2008 and August 2009, there’s a good chance that at least some of the calls came from an operation that was just squashed by the Federal Trade Commission.
Steve is 24 years old and lives solely off the money he makes spamming Pinterest, which comes out to about $1,000 a day.
Sometimes one industry’s bad news is cause to celebrate for… almost everybody else in the world. Return Path, one of the world’s biggest email certification companies, says the number of emails getting through to inboxes worldwide dropped considerably in the second half of 2011.
Sick of dealing with — or worse, falling for — spam emails that claim to come from companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Google or the like? Hope is at hand, as those companies (and many others) have joined together to create a new system to verify where your emails come from.
Finally, those spam emails claiming to offer large amounts of money if only you’ll act right now have finally paid off… and fairly substantially, for that matter. Yahoo announced yesterday that it had won a $610 million judgment in a lawsuit against several defendants accused of fraud.
It’s sad but probably inevitable: When someone as recognizable and popular as Apple’s Steve Jobs passes away, cyber crooks and spam moguls turn up in droves.
Sanford Wallace’s claim to fame as the Spam King dates back to the late ’90s, when his company, Cyber Promotions, became notorious for sending unsolicited junk emails to the masses.
It’s sad, but it’s true: Spam is as spam does. It gets everywhere. It’s now found its way into Amazon’s Kindle e-book store.
“Wow! See who viewed your twitter with Profile Spy.”
Do you “like” things on Facebook? Spammers like things, too, and they’re using Facebook’s “Like” function to put their obnoxious schemes and shameless missives everywhere.
